A “female social network” called Giggle whose operators left its user database unsecured has triggered a wave of Twitter controversy after its founder threatened to sue a UK infosec firm who pointed out the vulnerability.
Over the past few days lots of tweets have been posted on the happy and friendly microblogging website about Giggle’s security practices. While the flaw has been fixed, the way it was dealt with has caused a wave of headscratching among those British infoseccers who use Twitter.
Even for those who stay the hell away from Twitter (good on you, folks - keep that up) there are potentially some lessons to be learnt from the Giggle debacle about responsible disclosure as well as operating an app that collects and stores users' data.
It began earlier this week when Saskia Coplans of Manchester-based Digital Interruption Security signed up for Gi ..
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